Sven Arvidsson schrieb: > On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 18:41 +0200, Paulus Esterhazy wrote: >> The AR2425 (AR5007EG) chipset built into the Eee PC is not supported by >> FLOSS drivers, as outlined in [1]. Now that ath5k support for this >> chipset may be forthcoming, I think it would be most helpful if ath5k >> developers had their own Eees to play with >> >> First, ASUS for all we know may be willing to supply one or two to the >> ath5k members. I have already contacted ASUS support, though I couldn't >> find a good contact on their website, so I went with their press >> address. I will report back to hear how it goes. If anyone has a better >> way to communicate with them, I'd love to hear about it. >> >> If this fails, then I propose to try and raise the money needed to buy >> one or two laptops for the project. There is a sizeable community at >> [2], so I think there is a chance that this might work. madwifi.org have >> a possibility to receive donation through FFII. [3] > > Hi, > > I'm guessing you never heard back from Asus? > > Have you been in contact with madwifi.org to find out how donations best > could be handled? There doesn't seem to be a way to donate money for a > specific goal at http://madwifi.org/wiki/Donations > > Perhaps donations directly to Nick Kossifidis could be arranged?
You're right, I never heard a word from Asus. So a direct donation is what I think is best, too. I posted a message a while back to the forum.eeeuser.com message board, and got some response: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=246766#p246766 Specifically, the plan is described here: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=246766#p246766 I'm optimistic that we'll find enough people. After having confirmed this procedure with Nick, I'll report back later this week. Cheers, Paulus _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
